Word: rashness
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...accord with the rash of egg throwing currently breaking out in England, per "An Eggalitarian Education" [May 18], a fellow student and I took it upon ourselves to test the evidence presented to the public in TIME in order to corroborate the validity of the article. Consequently, we announced to the student body of our small high school that I would throw ten eggs a maximum distance onto the school's luxuriantly soft lawn. Naturally, as this was a sporting event, we could not resist taking a few modest bets from various other students who challenged our claim that...
...made mistakes. Sometimes we were rash and arrogant, but it was to push away the overwhelmingly helpless and insignificant feelings. We felt horror and grief and rage. We wanted to shake President Johnson and tell him to stop! stop! And the more we spoke out and marched and felt horror, the more the killing grew. Finally, a few more people joined in the protests and we were no longer cowards or traitors. But we were still helpless. We were drafted and trained to kill and sent to a very far away place to die. And our parents watched their children...
Despite its offensiveness to her. Mrs. Romm defends the movement and street corner press as a legitimate, though rash, expression of deeply felt emotion-"reactions to an America that many of the nation's young feel has not lived up to the promises of their Sunday school sermons or their civies class lessons." To her the underground press is a symptom of a sick society a cancer-like attack on the American body politic. In other words, the underground press- "salacious, hilarious, outrageous, desperate, philosophical, didactic"- is a reactive phenomenon that reflects an ailing culture...
...rash of Harvard penalties magnified any difference in ability between the two teams. Five Crimson players served two each, and Cle Landon served three...
Painful Choice. Another bug-this one viral-made the hours before liftoff almost as tense as the launch itself. The countdown for the mission was about to begin when Astronaut Charles Duke, of the Apollo 13 back-up crew, complained of chills, fever and a rash. Doctors diagnosed his illness as rubella, or German measles. Duke had apparently caught the disease from the children of friends. Dismayed NASA officials immediately ordered blood tests of Apollo 13's first-line crew members, who had come in contact with Duke during several preflight conferences. Both Astronauts Jim Lovell and Fred Haise...